Cyber Security News

Why It’s Still A Bad Idea to Post or Trash Your Airline Boarding Pass: One reason may be that the advice remains timely and relevant: A talk recently given at a Czech security conference advances that research and offers several reminders of how being careless with your boarding pass could jeopardize your privacy or even cause trip disruptions down the road. KrebsOnSecurity, August 24, 2017

Backup & Recovery: If you use a computer or mobile device long enough, sooner or later something will go wrong, resulting in you losing your personal files, documents, or photos.SANS Securing the Human, August 2017

Eighth Circuit Affirms Dismissal of Scottrade Data Breach Suit: The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit recently affirmed the district court’s dismissal of a putative class action brought by customers of the brokerage firm Scottrade in the wake of an alleged data breach impacting Scottrade in 2013. Alston & Bird Privacy & DataBlog, August 25, 2017

The HBO hackers just sent us the end of ‘Game of Thrones’ Season 7: The so-called Mr. Smith hacking group that’s responsible for stealing approximately 1.5 terabytes of data from HBO just released what they’re calling the sixth wave of leaks — and it just so happens this data dump contains what they claim is the end to Season 7 of Game of Thrones. Mashable Technology, August 25, 2017

PIHRA: Information Security Awareness: The Cyber Tsunami!:Citadel’s Kimberly Pease will facilitate a discussion of (i) steps to take to protect a company’s information from hackers and cyber criminals; (ii)tips to protect yourselves as consumers; (iii) understanding who the criminals are and why you are a target; (iv) real stories and scary examples that could happen to you. September 20, 7:30 – 9:30, The City Club

SecureTheVillage: San Fernando Valley-East (Pasadena / Glendale) Cybersecurity Roundtable: The San Fernando Valley-East (Pasadena / Glendale) Cybersecurity Roundtable is designed to support communication and collaboration between C-Suite executives, IT managers, and cybersecurity experts. The San Fernando Valley-East Roundtable is intended for both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. The Roundtable functions as a cross-organizational “learning community” committed to working together to better protect our community from cybercrime. September 28, 7:30 -10AM. Datastream, Glendale.